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Delete text in a Visual Studio printout

Remove words, lines or a whole paragraph and close the gap they leave behind. This works on the PDF Visual Studio printed, even when its letters are only drawn shapes.

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How to do it

  1. 1.Drop your Microsoft Print to PDF file into MythosPDF. Drawn letters are turned back into text in a few seconds.
  2. 2.Select the words to remove and press Delete.
  3. 3.Press Enter to save the line, then Export PDF.

How Visual Studio prints

  • • Visual Studio 2022 uses Cascadia Mono by default; older versions use Consolas.
  • • Printed code can include line numbers and a page header.
  • • Every letter has the same width.

What that means when you delete text

  • • Letters you type that already appear in the printout, in the same font, are copied from its own letter shapes, so they print identically.
  • • After export, the recovered text can be selected, copied and searched, which the printout could not do.

What happens to the rest of the page

  • • The text is truly removed from the file, not covered with a white box.
  • • Deleting a paragraph pulls the content below it up by the space it used.

Questions people ask

+Is deleted text really gone?

Yes. The characters are removed from the page, so they cannot be copied or searched afterwards.

+Why can't I select text in my Microsoft Print to PDF file?

The driver often draws every letter as a shape instead of writing text. MythosPDF reads those shapes and turns them back into real text before you edit.

+Is it better to reprint from Visual Studio?

If you still have the Visual Studio file and a lot to change, yes. For a quick fix to the PDF you already have, editing it is faster.

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